The Cultural Common Market: 2 Peter Stein and The Schaubuhne
Next week, Germany's best theatre company is coming to London for the first time.
In the 50s and 60s it was obligatory for theatre fans and critics from all over Germany to make the pilgrimage to East Berlin to see each new production of Brecht's Berliner Ensemble. Now, just across the wall, Die Schaubuhne, a young and politically committed theatre co-operative, has by general international consensus replaced the Berliner Ensemble as the finest German company. It director, PETER STEIN , has been hailed as a theatrical genius. His inventive and brilliant productions of Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Gorki's Summerfolk have made theatrical history. At present, Stein has hired a gigantic film studio for a Shakespeare Project lasting over two evenings-a visually stunning recreation of the Elizabethan environment. With extracts from Summerfolk and Shakespeare's Memory.
Producer PETER ADAM